As we honor our veterans on Wednesday, we’re also faced with a grim reality that many of them…are unemployed. The Aiken County employment office sees as many as 350 vets a month, looking for a job. We spoke with an Iraqi veteran, on her way to Afghanistan, injured, and then left standing in the unemployment line. WJBF News Channel 6’s Joy Howe has the story.

East Central Georgia Regional Hospital is holding a nursing hiring fair Tuesday to fill 60 vacant positions. RN, LPN, Occupational Therapy & Dietician positions are available

Kia Motors says it will reopen the application process for production and maintenance jobs at its new assembly plant in West Point. The South Korean automobile manufacturer has hired 1,200 employees for the plant, where full production of the Kia Sorento is expected to begin later this month. A second production line is planned for early next year.

A new federal report shows that more than 16,000 Georgia education jobs were saved or created through stimulus funding.

Boeing is planning to have its new 787 Dreamliner production plant running in South Carolina in 2011, but state Commerce Secretary Joe Taylor says the plant will start having an effect on the state’s job situation in a matter of weeks, because Boeing plans to break ground in November. WJBF News Channel 6’s SC Capitol reporter, Robert Kittle, has more.

New unemployment numbers have been released for the CSRA. The rate was unchanged at 10.2 percent from August to September.

A company that produces and sells medical equipment is getting ready to open up in Thomson. Reliant Medical is based out of Florida. Company officials have built a warehouse at the Thomson Industrial Park. Workers at the warehouse will build refurbished MRI equipment for doctors and hospitals.

Unemployment rates rose last month in 23 states and fell in 19 as the economy struggled to create jobs in the early stages of recovery. The Labor Department says Nevada, Rhode Island and Florida in September posted their highest jobless rates on records dating to 1976.

Georgia’s unemployment rate for September was 10.1 percent, the same as the month before. The Georgia Department of Labor said Thursday it’s the 23rd consecutive month that Georgia’s unemployment rate is higher than the national rate.

Hundreds of jobs could be coming to Jenkins County. The county is just one area that’s in the running to house a new private prison. WJBF News channel 6’s Fraendy Clervaud has the story.

There’s some good economic news for the South Carolina coast as Scientific Research Corp. of Atlanta is expanding in North Charleston, adding 300 jobs.

The Georgia Department of Labor says first-time claims for state unemployment insurance benefits jumped by more than 17 percent in September from a year ago, but fell from the August figure.

An Aiken County plant is rolling out some good news…Bridgestone Firestone is hiring again.

The American Cancer Society says it has cut 140 jobs nationwide, including about 80 in Atlanta where the organization is based.

Officials say a manufacturer of disposable baby diapers is moving into a former South Carolina textile plant, creating 260 jobs in a rural county suffering from high unemployment.